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The reason why reveals a near-universal difference in the academic strengths of each sex.
If mating preferences are biologically predetermined, individual sexism shouldn’t have an impact. But it does.
In a state-of-the-nation speech just weeks before Russia’s presidential election, President Vladimir Putin claimed his country had two new nuclear-powered weapons systems.
Welcome news as the flu pandemic begins to subside.
Investor, advisor and author Tim Ferriss says that often times the smartest questions are the "dumbest" — the ones that no one asks because they are afraid of being shamed. In a […]
LISA, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, will not only be the space-based successor to LIGO, but will predict black hole mergers up to years in advance. Across the Universe, innumerable masses […]
It is possible to eat fast food and stay true to the keto diet. Just be wary of eliminating everything from life (and avoid the sauces).
The findings could help medical professionals better determine the official time of brain death, and might have implications on the protocols for organ donation.
Think you're "post-tribal"? Think again. Attorney and "tiger mom" Amy Chua on groupthink in America and abroad.
Canadian researchers have successfully reconstructed faces from data in brain scans.
"Enforcing language norms is a way of enforcing power structures."
The scientists have traced the signals to just 180 million years after the Big Bang, making the detection the earliest evidence of hydrogen yet observed.
If the neural crest hypothesis is correct, humans are the first domesticated animals. But who, or what, tamed us?
“Earth to lunar surface… my, you’re looking very high definition today!”
They say there’s a singularity, but must that be true? When you fall inside the event horizon of a black hole, there’s no escaping, no matter what you do or how […]
Images taken 20 years apart show the rate of evaporation, and they’ll take much more than mere thousands of years to destroy. In 1995, the Hubble Space Telescope snapped one of […]
Imagining ourselves as no longer existing is, for most of us, terrifying. Buddhism may offer some reassurance.
The American public is split on whether to provide a “safety net” to workers displaced by advancements in artificial intelligence.
“The bow too tensely strung is easily broken.” — Publius Syrus.
How do we even define mental illness?